Music and Exercise (12-09-19)
How does music heard influence exercising?
How does music heard influence exercising?
Crucial resource for designing in walkability
Zuniga-Teran lead a team which determined that parks are used more when the routes potential users would take to them are more walkable.
Research by Pantzar and colleagues confirms the value of supporting employee efforts to exercise, via onsite exercise facilities, for example.
How are crime and the amount of walking done in that area related?
Stork and colleagues investigated how music influenced mood and enjoyment of sprint interval training (SIT).
Roskams and Haynes studied how workplace design can promote employee health.
The design of indoor spaces can affect the health—mental and physical—of users. Neuroscience research reveals how aspects of designed environments can influence mental and physical health and also ways in which study findings can be applied in practice.
Getting people rolling isn't easy
Research findings detail how design can encourage people to be more active and energized - via sensory experiences, floor plans, and furniture, for example.